The quarter-inch-long tamarisk beetle originates in China and two areas of Kazakhstan in western Asia, where they are so voracious they often must be attacked with insecticides to protect the native tamarix stands.

Some scholars have argued that the manna is the same thing as a sweet secretion that comes from the tamarisk ( "tamarix mannifera") when punctured by a particular insect commonly found in the mountains of Sinai.

In the northern areas the most common mammals are the forest mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus), badger (Meles meles), and wild boar (Sus scrofa), while in the south dominants include the tamarix gerbil (Meriones tamariscinus), flattooth rat (Nesokia indica), and jackal (Canis aureus).

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Various species of Tamarix (tamarix, tamarisk, salt cedar) are invasive shrubs in the riparian corridors of the arid southwestern and western United States where they have displaced willows. Tamarix ramosissima,, as well as hybrids of it and congeners, is the prime culprit.

The limbs of tamarix are of small diameter.

This halophile (salt lover) exudes a saline sap that makes the soil that it inhabits ever more saline, effecting the continual eradication of its less halophilic competitors.